At least the throwaway unbeta'd crossover did rock mightily, and won in the category it belonged in? I dunno, it usually puzzles me how fanfic awards get categorized and picked.
Synechdochic's "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose" won in a GEN category?!?
Also scratching my head that the story of shalott's that won Best Drama Story: Slash is what I think of as one of her least capably-written stories. She's got like 15 in the last year that would have been much better candidates.
The results of fanfic awards usually leave me confused and disturbed, and wondering what reality other people are living in... quite like how I feel after national elections since we partied like it was 1999.
I was going to say. I've never had truck with any awards, because "there's no accounting for taste" is a polite way of saying that most people don't have any.
Eh, I've never put stock in fanfic awards. You never know how many people are voting, any note of their fannish demographics, yadda yadda. It seems way more like shooting fish in a barrell than anything else.
I finally signed up for Yuletide. I ended up offering fewer fandoms than I did the last couple years, because I realized that while I love fiction in a large number of fandoms, the ones that I would be excited to write in are rather smaller.
I was amused by the many different kinds of RPF, though. And I wonder how Naomi Novik felt with Temeraire in there.
And I wonder how Naomi Novik felt with Temeraire in there.
I haven't talked about Temeraire fanfic with her specifically (although I did get to hear some about book 4 over lunch, ha!), but I'm pretty sure she thinks Temeraire fic is awesome, but that she won't be reading it for the usual legal reasons.
No, of course--I just meant, like, the act of it being put in there. By the person that put it in there. Physically-coding wise.
When was she in Chicago? ETA: Nevermind, VVC.
I just meant, like, the act of it being put in there. By the person that put it in there. Physically-coding wise.
Ooooh. That I don't know, although I imagine it's entertainingly surreal.
Ah-ha, so my little dance of not linking names worked. Rock. *g* I know, wouldn't it be weird? To put that in the choosing field? And then watching the numbers tick up? Which, at the moment, is 10 requests and 37 offers. Wow.
Synechdochic's "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose" won in a GEN category?!?
Well, I actually talked to her about that. And, well, it's more gen than it is slash, really. In the sense that the story is about Rodney and Atlantis and everything he's learned, more than it is about Rodney-and-John.
And the writer picks the category, but you are limited to the categories they make available to you. If I'd put Wartime in the gen category I would have been able to put it in Action-Adventure, and would probably have had a better chance of winning than in Multiples-Series, which was very small, but which people were reading for the multiple-snogging rather than for the plot. Or so I suspect.
But Wartime isn't a gen series, except in tone and plottiness: it does indeed have a fairly explicit threesome, and so I was pretty much doomed regardless. ::shrugs::
Anyway, thanks Matt.
No accounting for taste, indeed.
